34 Bible Verses about Purgatory
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And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they who would pass from hence to you, cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
If any man's work shall be burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Every man's work will be made manifest: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will try every man's work, of what sort it is.
When thou goest with thy adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he draw thee before the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
To the general assembly and church of the first-born, who are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
This then is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered to me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
And the four living beings had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned.
Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the world began;
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
Therefore if thou shalt bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee;
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Why, seeing times are not hid from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
After this I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard, was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.
